Arabic khutbah, word for word in German.
Miskio translates the Arabic khutbah live into German - sentence by sentence on the screen of your mosque. Qur’an verses appear in the established Bubenheim translation instead of machine text. No app, no headsets, no account for the congregation.
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- Bubenheim on every plan
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Who benefits from a German translation of the Arabic khutbah?
Every congregation in which not everyone understands the Standard Arabic of the minbar any more. The khutbah is given in classical Arabic - a register that many children of native speakers only know from lessons. Anyone who speaks a dialect at home or grew up with German often follows the sermon only in fragments.
With the text on the wall, the whole congregation understands the same sermon: the older generation in the original, the younger one in German - and visitors who are in the mosque for the first time as well.
What happens with Qur’an verses in the sermon?
When the imam recites a verse, Miskio recognises it and, instead of a machine translation, shows the established German translation by Bubenheim & Elyas on the wall - with the surah and verse number.
This is where plain translation apps stop: machines translate the Qur’an like everyday language, and that is exactly what should not appear on a mosque wall. The Bubenheim replacement gives the recitation the text that German-speaking Muslims know from their own editions - it is included on every plan.
Can the Arabic khutbah also be read along in Arabic?
Yes. If the mosque chooses Arabic as the output language, Miskio does not translate but shows the recognised Arabic text as live text on the wall: a running text version of the sermon in the language of the sermon itself. That helps everyone who reads Arabic better than they hear it.
Qur’an verses then appear as the recognised text, not in the Bubenheim version - that is only available with German output. Every combination of spoken language and output is on the page Multilingual khutbah.
Does Miskio understand classical sermon Arabic?
Yes - the recognition is designed for Standard Arabic (Fuṣḥā), exactly the register of the khutbah. To be honest, it is still a machine translation: very readable, but not perfect, and that is exactly how we label it on the wall. During the joint setup we test it with a real sermon by your imam - free of charge, before you decide.
What does your mosque need for it?
A screen or projector with a browser, a laptop or phone for the recording and stable Wi-Fi - you can keep using the microphone of your existing sound system. Nothing is installed, and the congregation needs neither an app nor an account: the wall, the phone view and the archive are simple web pages.
Not on the board? No problem.
Most people who look for a German translation of the khutbah are members of the congregation - not the people who decide on purchases. The way there is still short. In our experience, a board asks three questions:
- “What does it cost?”
- The trial is free: four weeks on the Max plan, without payment details. After that Basis costs €29 a month and Pro €49 - cancel monthly, nothing to buy.
- “What do we have to buy?”
- Nothing. You need a screen or projector, which most mosques already have, and a device for the microphone signal. No headsets, no receivers, nothing to hand out and collect.
- “Who is going to run it every Friday?”
- One person, one click to start. We do the first setup together with you - free and without obligation, ideally with a real khutbah as a test.
Every generation.One Friday.
Bring the khutbah onto your wall - so that the second and third generation understand what it is about.
or by email: team@miskio.de